This is a blog by a feminist killjoy for all feminist killjoys! I began this blog three years ago – I wrote it alongside working on a new book, Living a Feminist Life, which is forthcoming from Duke University Press in Spring 2017. This book offers my most sustained commentary on killing joy as a world making project. I have previously written about feminist killjoys in my book The Promise of Happiness (2010) as well as here:

I am currently based at Goldsmiths, University of London. However I recently resigned from my post. From January 2017, I will continue my work as an independent scholar.

I have decided to continue with the blog, even though the book is finished.

The work of the feminist killjoy is not over!

YOU might be interested in this blog if YOU:

Are told you are angry no matter what you say

Witness people’s eyes rolling as soon as you open your mouth as if to say: ‘oh here she goes!’

Are angry because that’s a sensible response to what is wrong

Are often accused of getting in the way of the happiness of others (or just getting in the way)

Have ruined the atmosphere by turning up or speaking up

Have a body that reminds people of histories they find disturbing

Are willing to make disturbance a political cause

Are willing to cause unhappiness to follow your desire

Will not laugh at jokes designed to cause offense

Will take offense when it is there to be taken

Will point out when men cite men about men as a learned social habit that is diminishing (ie. most or usual citational practice)

Will notice and name whiteness. Will keep noticing and naming whiteness.

Will use words like ‘sexism’ and ‘racism’ even if that means being heard as the cause of bad feeling (and are willing to cause bad feeling)

Will refuse to look away from what compromises happiness

Are willing to be silly and display other inappropriate positive affects

Are willing to listen and learn from the work of feminists over time and refuse the caricatures of feminism and feminists that enables a disengagement from feminism